Thursday, February 8th – Nine game slate in the NHL tonight
UPDATE – Clarification on the Wild stack. Spurgeon will be on the Top PP with Koivu/Granlund/Zucker…. But I still am rolling with the Staal-Niederreiter combo with Spurgeon as the third guy in the stack
STACKS OF THE NIGHT
Buffalo Sabres … Eichel-Reinhart-Ristolainen
By now you know the drill, the Islanders are among the leagues worst defensive teams over the past 1-2 months and Buffalo’s scoring often comes from their best player Jack Eichel. Jack together with Reinhart had a good game two nights ago and I want to go right back to them tonight. My personal plan with this game is to either game-stack it anticipating a back and forth game or pick just Reinhart or Bailey as one offs from both sides.
Minnesota Wild… Staal-Niederreiter-Spurgeon (Power Play)
Scott Wedgewood is in goal for the Coyotes tonight and although the Coyotes offense burned some people when they lit up Helleybuck the other night, they remain a poor puck possession team and should have problems going up against Minnesota tonight. Staal grades out very well for me in this spot and I love the Wild top power play with him, Nino (Nemo!) and Spurgeron (or Suter) as your third members of the stack. This is a lower owned stack that is good for bigger tournaments tonight and I would correlate them with Dubnyk.
OTHER STACKS I LIKE
Philadelphia Flyers … Sean Couturier-Claude Girioux-Travis Konecny
New Jersey Devils … Nico Hischier-Taylor Hall-Jesper Bratt
Tampa Bay Lightning … Steven Stamkos-Nikita Kucherov-Vlad Namestnikov
C&W COMBOS (Mini Stacks)
- Eric Staal & Nino Niedereiter (Wild)
- Jack Eichel & Sam Reinhart (Sabres)
- Brayden Schenn & Vlad Tarasenko (Blues)
- Matt Duchene & Mike Hoffman (Senators)
- John Tavares & Josh Bailey (Islanders)
Bargain / Second Tier
- Mathew Barzal & Jordan Eberle (Isles)
- Brayden Point & Yannie Gourde (Lightning)
- Mikael Backlund & Michael Frolik (Flames)
- Jonathan Toews & Anthony Duclair (Blackhawks)
CENTERS
- Eric Staal – MIN
- Steven Stamkos – TB
- Jack Eichel – BUF
- Brayden Schenn – STL
- Matt Duchene – OTT
WINGS
- Nikita Kucherov – TB … Fine as a one off tonight
- Taylor Hall – NJD … Favorite lock pick
- Patrick Kane – CHI … Would play him with Schmaltz
- Sam Reinhart – BUF … Fine as a one off or with Jack
- Vlad Tarasenko – STL … Full stack
- Nino Niederreiter – MIN … Full stack
- Mike Hoffman – OTT … With Duchene
- Claude Girioux – PHI … One off
- Travis Konecny – PHI … One off
- Johnny Gaudreau – CGY … One off
DEFENSEMEN
- Erik Karlsson – OTT
- Ryan Ellis – NSH
- Jared Spurgeon – MIN – Lock for me in all formats.
- Brent Burns – SJ
- Alex Pietrangelo – STL
- Ivan Provorov – PHI
- Rasmus Ristolainen – BUF
- Nick Leddy – NYI
GOALIES
- Andrei Vasilevsky (FD: 9200, DK: 8400) … Best play on the board tonight, home against Vancouver.
- Craig Anderson (FD: 7600, DK: 6900) … Confirmed starting against Juuse Saros tonight. The Predators are on a B2B and 3 in 4 nights so I like the Sens to pull off an upset against a red hot Predators team tonight. Dont play Anderson without stacking Duchene-Hoffman-EK65 with him because that’s my stack correlation and you’ll want to only have him with a win.
- Devan Dubnyk (FD: 8700, DK: 8500) .. Better salary relief than paying all the way up for Vasilevsky on FD. I prefer Vas on DK but Dubnyk should win tonight at home vs the Coyotes and will be a popular play on FD.
LINE LOCK: Eric Staal – Nino Niederreiter – Jared Spurgeon (Wild Power Play)
STUD WINGERS: Taylor Hall (Devils) & Nikita Kucherov (Lightning)
VALUE WINGER: Travis Konecny (Flyers)
TOP DEFENSEMAN Jared Spurgeon (Wild)
